How WWE Is Leveraging Politics: CM Punk, Saudi Arabia & Trump Ties | Pollock & Thurston
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🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Brandon Thurston chat about the political identity of WWE and the promotion of CM Punk’s match in Saudi Arabia at Night of Champions.
Plus, WWE & McMahons refile motions in the ring boy lawsuit, Janel Grant requests travel logs for Colker & McMahon, BKFC president details a past meeting with Vince McMahon, a lawsuit is filed against Jon Moxley & AEW, and Kevin Gill's lawsuit against GCW.
00:00:00 Start
00:02:02 WWE performers appear at Fort Bragg
00:09:34 Paul Levesque & Stephanie McMahon meet with RFK Jr.
00:10:17 CM Punk's past comments about Saudi Arabia
00:20:14 Vince McMahon and BKFC
00:24:55 McMahons & WWE file motions in ring boy suit
00:36:33 Janel Grant seeking travel logs for McMahon & Dr. Carlon Colker
00:45:37 Five years since Speaking Out
00:57:29 Lawsuit filed against AEW & Jon Moxley
01:05:54 Kevin Gill's lawsuit against GCW
01:12:43 New appoints SVP of Government Affairs
01:14:34 Zuffa Boxing
01:15:31 Super Chat - Is UFC a haven for fascists?
01:17:13 Super Chat - Is Dana White's heart no longer in UFC?
01:20:05 More streaming watch time than cable and broadcast
01:23:57 Is SmackDown moving back to two hours?
Music courtesy: “Panic Beat” by Ben Tramer
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| 0:00.0 | This month at post wrestling cafe.com, go Excel, and you get live editions of Rewind a |
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| 0:18.8 | Brandon Thurston from WrestleMania is up next, and we're going to follow Brandon with |
| 0:23.4 | John Pollack from Post Wrestling. |
| 0:26.9 | Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone. |
| 0:30.3 | But we can't ignore the math, okay? |
| 0:33.3 | We can't ignore the data. |
| 0:35.7 | Go on Google Trends, type in your name, then type in mine. |
| 0:39.7 | You're a straight line. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm a pyramid. |
| 0:42.4 | I like the very direct question on that. |
| 0:44.7 | Television ratings, downward spiral, fire rates, plummeting. |
| 0:49.7 | The time is now to turn the math around. |
| 0:57.3 | And it is time for Pollock and Thurston. |
| 1:00.3 | I am John Pollock, joined as always by Brandon Thurston, where he is coming from the |
| 1:05.0 | the Russellnomics home headquarters. |
| 1:07.3 | Library. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm in the library today. |
| 1:08.9 | Oh, the National Wrestling Comics archives. Yes, yes. We've been going through us on the records today. |
| 1:14.7 | Okay. Well, we're going to go through plenty of records today. We have it all on today's |
| 1:20.1 | show. We're going to be going through what is next for Vince McMahon plus lawsuits |
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